My Meals
The My Meals section of The Nutrition Program enables you to find out how healthy a meal is.
Creating a Meal
Navigate to the My Meals section by clicking on the red My Meals tab from anywhere in the program.
Then click + New Meal to create a Meal.
Give your meal a name, for example Saturday morning breakfast
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Select an age for the person having the meal, and whether they are male or female, from the drop-down menus. This will enable a more accurate Nutrition Analysis.
And finally, use the Meal Type menu to say whether it's Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner - this is used later to organise and order your meals.
Adding to the Meal
You can add to your meal from your Recipes, or directly from the Nutrition Program's large database of foods.
Adding a Recipe
If you've made a recipe in the My Recipes section of The Nutrition Program, you can add a portion of your recipe to the meal now.
For example, if you made a recipe called "Hollandaise Sauce" which serves 4 portions, you can add one portion of the sauce to your meal. The Nutrition Program will know how to calculate the nutrition based on all the details you added previously when setting up your recipe.
Adding a Food
As well as adding your recipes, you can also add foods directly from The Nutrition Program's database of over 3000 foods.
For example, you might want to add some orange juice to your Saturday breakfast meal.
The Nutrition Program suggests that a glass of orange juice might be 160g, so enter 160
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Nutrition Information
Nutritional recommendations
The data shown on the program should only be used as a guideline to help show if meals are too high in fat, sugar or salt.
People vary in size, metabolic rate, activity levels and dietary needs. The data shown on the program is shown as an average guideline.
The meal is a part of a whole day, and whole week of eating, so snacks, drinks and other meals can contribute to our nutritional needs.
Click the Nutrition tab within the My Meals section to analyse the nutrition of your meal.
You can switch between Show Basic (which shows Energy, Fat, Sugars and Salt) and Show All which covers a much wider range of nutrients.
Use the Age Range drop-down menu to change the age of the person having the meal and see how that affects the percentages.
For example very young children, and older people, require less food each day than a young adult, so the same meal will provide a larger percentage of that person's requirements.